In the US at least, many large employers automatically create 401ks or IRA’s for their employees and contribute a portion of your paycheck to it.
After I graduated college, my first job created a 401k and started putting 1% of my paycheck into it without telling me. The job didn’t let me set it to 0%, forcing me to research 401ks and retirement planning. This led me to raise it to 15% and start investing.
Okay, but come on, 55% of people that age have a 401k or IRA? How many people under 30 even have a job that pays well enough to offer that sort of benefit? Jobs pay shit these days.
I think you’re really underestimating how many 25-35 year olds work for large corps. And you’ve got it reversed. The big corp jobs are the only ones paying wll enough to escape that treadmill. Sucks, I would love to work for some local mom and pop, but FAANG can double or triple the salaries of what they can offer. Most of my peers that I have talked to are in a similar boat.
And again, we all get retirement accounts in the first couple of weeks of employment. That’s been the case since I worked at comparitively much smaller companies even.
Absolutely. Any corporate employer is going to auto-enroll you into setting up and paying into a retirement account. Any post-college age group is going to have similar numbers. That would be my guess anyway.
How significant?
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I mean the article suggests it’s 55% of people 18-35. Do you really think that’s true?
In the US at least, many large employers automatically create 401ks or IRA’s for their employees and contribute a portion of your paycheck to it.
After I graduated college, my first job created a 401k and started putting 1% of my paycheck into it without telling me. The job didn’t let me set it to 0%, forcing me to research 401ks and retirement planning. This led me to raise it to 15% and start investing.
Okay, but come on, 55% of people that age have a 401k or IRA? How many people under 30 even have a job that pays well enough to offer that sort of benefit? Jobs pay shit these days.
I think you’re really underestimating how many 25-35 year olds work for large corps. And you’ve got it reversed. The big corp jobs are the only ones paying wll enough to escape that treadmill. Sucks, I would love to work for some local mom and pop, but FAANG can double or triple the salaries of what they can offer. Most of my peers that I have talked to are in a similar boat.
And again, we all get retirement accounts in the first couple of weeks of employment. That’s been the case since I worked at comparitively much smaller companies even.
Well as I said below, I would like some evidence for it beyond this poll.
Here ya go. The gov puts it at about 50% for about the same age group.
Ok, fair enough. Thank you.
Absolutely. Any corporate employer is going to auto-enroll you into setting up and paying into a retirement account. Any post-college age group is going to have similar numbers. That would be my guess anyway.
I would absolutely like some evidence that 55% of people 18-35 have retirement savings beyond this poll.